Nearly 4 1/2 years later, Rule, executive director of the Center for Warriors Foundation, stood in Memorial Park in Helena to honor the veteran and give family members first-ever pins and a ...

In this installment of A Look Back in Time, the Thursday, June 7, 1945, edition of The Chronicle featured a story about the Rowe and Thompson pre-fabricated housing manufacturer in Chehalis receiving ...

He was wounded by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol and was awarded the Purple Heart. Despite his injuries ... be seen wearing a Gold Star lapel button, which contains a gold ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Members of the U.S. armed forces who suffered wounds and received Purple Heart decorations may soon get into South Dakota state campgrounds and rec areas for free.

On Thursday, Edward Gorski Jr.’s Purple Heart medal was returned by the Illinois treasurer’s office to the World War II veteran’s grandson Shawn. The medal was presented to the Gorski family ...

Winnebago County will dedicate a portion of State 21 as a Purple Heart Highway. A public unveiling ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. June 7 near the intersection of State 21 and Oakwood Road.

New Bedford has been designated a “Purple Heart City” by the Military Order of the Purple Heart, according to a community announcement. The city will install signs marking the designation at ...

Army Cpl. Henry Van Der Noord earned his Purple Heart while fighting to liberate the Philippines during World War II. "He took a mortar shell from behind during a volley of artillery in the ...

Van Der Noord survived — as did three brothers who also served their country in the war — and earned a Purple Heart for the combat injury he suffered in May 1945. This month, as Memorial Day ...

We have an update on that mysterious Purple Heart medal discovered in a Newnan junkyard 80 years after the soldier’s death following World War II. Federal immigration raid at Omaha meat ...